POLL: Do You Wish Giant Sea Monsters Ate Hummers Today?

Scientists have determined that an Arctic "sea monster" that they're calling "Predator X" was really, really horrifying. Scientifically speaking. Via Reuters, you'll see why this is really exciting:

The 50 ft (15 meter) long Jurassic era marine reptile had a crushing 33,000 lbs (15 tonnes) per square inch bite force, the Natural History Museum of Oslo University said of the new find on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.

"With a skull that's more than 10 feet long you'd expect the bite to be powerful but this is off the scale," said Joern Hurum, an associate professor of vertebrate paleontology at the museum who led the international excavation in 2008.

Hurum had said of the first fossil pliosaur that it was big enough to chomp on a small car. He said the bite estimates for the latest fossil forced a rethink.

"This one is more like it could crush a Hummer," he said. referring to General Motors' large sport utility vehicle.

So my question:

Quick Poll

Do you wish that a sea monster called "Predator X" were alive today to chomp on Hummers?

Yes

No

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Comments

[degenerate1991]

Nah, Hummer drivers at least usually drive 90 miles an hour (which mans I'll never get pulled over going 85); I'd rather it eat Tahoes and Expeditions driving 10 miles an hour under the speed limit in the left lane.

[argyle]

Sea Monster? I need the d@#% land version. Can I teach it to fetch?

[SwingingFromCenter]

I don't care about what they'd chomp on, but I think the world would be a much, MUCH more interesting place with them in it. It would make yachting an extreme sport.

[lakat]

YES and if they had a category HELL YES that would be even better. Giant sea monsters eating Hummers filled with men with size issues and other people who do not give a damn about their environment and their neighbors.

[RegularEinstein]

I wish giant sea monsters would eat A[p]IG execs and Bernie Mad[e]off [with billions] while they were in a Hummer!!

[DrJohnnySkeptic]

Cheers!

[pokemon]

Look... I own a 10 MPG Military vehicle, its loud and huge. Funny thing is it is greener then any hybrid you all own.. cause it is multi-fuel and I can burn anything from waste motor oil to straight from the fryer veggie oil (if I want to smell like fries). I can mix any fuel with others, to include ANY bio fuels.. even those I make myself.

You all just haters

[lakat]

You first, Pokemon. Giant sea monsters eat your 10 MPG military vehicle, you could be in it or not. Either way.

[pokemon]

OK, but first I will run over your Hybrid.

[CloseToTheEdge]

Your mother must be so proud of you.

[pokemon]

And yours sorry? Come on, you know you want a ride:)

[canfemlib]

Would they also eat creationists?

[BlackWidowPilot]

No; they're savvy enough to know creationists are toxic as arrow poison frogs found in a rainforest.

So what have you got against prehistoric sea monsters, anyway?

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[GotRights]

"Do you wish that a sea monster called "Predator X" were alive today to chomp on Hummers?"

Yes. And the people who drive them!

[digginestdogg]

We can rebuild them--we have the technology. We can make them amphibious so they can crush jet skiers and Hummers. The $6 million (in 1980 dollars) Predator-X. Somebody call Michael Crichton's people ASAP and get a link to the geneticists. Let's do a meeting. At least if we canot brign them back, it would be a box office hit in these times.

[KillTheMessenger]

A standard edition school bus can crush a Hummer. No big deal.

http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/hummer-vs-school-bus-ar16906.html

Now show me the dino that can crush a school bus!

:-)

[EinChicago]

I'd love to feed it Prius drivers. It would cut down on both smug pollution and smog pollution considering the massively disproportionally HUGE carbon footprint created in the manufacture of a Prius that makes a Hummer look green.

[KillTheMessenger]

Now that's just not nice, Ein. Moreover, it just total nonsense.

:-)

[pokemon]

Actually has a point. The batteries are horrible for the environment and take huge amounts of energy to make. In addition the vehicle itself has many parts that require special disposal whereas a Hummer just needs to be crushed.

[lakat]

You second, Ein...Giant sea monster eats you and your oversized (to make up for what you weren't born with) penismobile.

[quindy]

Fill the Hummer with some bankers for extra flavor.

[Gasparilla]

Impossible. Nothing on this earth lived more than 6 to 10 thousand years ago. Or so the fairy tales say.

[valkyrie607]

4004 B.C. That's when God created the Earth. I believe it was Sunday morning, October 23.

[KillTheMessenger]

At least he did not work on the Shabbat! Hasn't done much since then, either. Flooded the earth once, set a bush on fire, parted a sea, dictated ten sentences, beached a whale and sent out the son to get some beer and found a new religion while he is at it.

Did I forget something?

[Octoberluna]

9:47 AM

[Skye13]

Wow, that is amazing and totally frightening at the same time.